Reports

From IOM Press Briefing Notes by Thomas Weiss, IOM Spokesperson The Government of Zambia has requested IOM's assistance to transport some 2,000 former Angolan UNITA combatants and their families who recently entered the North Western Province of Zambia. The newly-arrived are…

UNMEE/PR/14 The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) today successfully opened the first access route through the frontlines. UNMEE Force Commander Major-General Patrick Cammaert and a small number of key staff members traveled in a two-vehicle convoy by road from…

Maputo, Mozambique - Environ 198.000 hectares de plantations ont été détruites au Mozambique par les inondations ayant ravagé ce pays en février dernier, selon un rapport rendu public lundi, à Maputo, au cours de la réunion du Comité de…

Tervil Okoko Nairobi, Kenya - Somalia's new government of President Abdiqassim Salat Hassan has offered an olive branch to all the warring groups to bring about everlasting peace in the country, Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galayadh said at the weekend. The…

A project FAO proposed within the 2000 UN Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for Tanzania has helped more than 50,000 refugees improve family nutrition by learning to grow food. The refugees have been in Tanzania since 1993, when war and civil unrest…

SG/A/752, AFR/277 The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General has decided to appoint Berhanu Dinka, his Special Representative for the Great Lakes Region, as Chairman of the Implementation Monitoring Committee…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org BURUNDI: Mandela launches committee to monitor peace deal Burundi's peace process mediator Nelson Mandela on Monday inaugurated the…

FONDATION HIRONDELLE - AGENCE DE PRESSE HIRONDELLE A ARUSHA POURPARLERS DE PAIX INTERBURUNDAIS NEWS DU 27 NOVEMBRE 2000 Arusha, 27 novembre 2000 (FH) Le médiateur dans la crise burundaise, l'ancien président sud-africain Nelson Mandela, a lancé la commission de suivi de l'application…

SUMMARY The situation remains stable. The Annual Needs Assessment field work has been concluded and zonal reports are under preparation. World Bank approval of the two-year multi-donor, multi-sectoral Emergency Reconstruction Programme for Eritrea brings new hope for…

KAMPALA, November 27 (Xinhua) -- About 300 Rwandan ethnic Hutu refugees have crossed into Uganda from Tanzania and Rwanda since the beginning of last week, the New Vision newspaper reported on Monday. The refugees came under the pretext of visiting their…